While Indigenous hemp and marijuana operators see opportunity within the space, it is evident that bureaucratic, investing and scalability hurdles continue to persist. The Pueblos of Picuris and Pojoaque, two of the 23 tribal nations in New Mexico, recently inked an intergovernmental agreement with the Land of Enchantment, thus taking a step toward setting up their own marijuana enterprises operating within their communities.
Now, U.S. Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH) has taken it a step further by securing a language in the fiscal year 2023 appropriations bill to protect the rights of Native American tribes which are impacted by federal cannabis laws, reported The Ripon Advance.
